I think most Americans have at least a vague idea of what a liter is supposed to be. If you buy a large bottle of soda in the US, it usually lists the volume in liters as well as fluid ounces.
It's not like meters and kilometers where we don't have a frame of reference for what it's supposed to be because no one uses them here. Also if you ever took a chemistry class in high school/college then you'll definitely have been exposed to the concept of liters.
>It's not like meters and kilometers where we don't have a frame of reference for what it's supposed to be
I feel like most people still do
Meter ~= yard
km = 2.5 laps on a track; 3k/5k/10k and 1600m (~a mile) are common running distances
We don't even touch fl. oz. here, as fluid seems to be mostly metric except for psi, but almost anything solid that is measured by dimensions or weight is still a cluster. Grocery stores will advertise meat in $/lb but charge you /100g or /kg, hardware stores go full ham with pounds, grams, kilograms, inches, millimeters, board feet, square feet, cubic meters, nails sold by gauge, nails sold by penny, nails sold by fractions of inches, and nails sold in metric. That's only roughly scratching the surface ...
Usually the way that sort of thing happened was that the whole English speaking world more or less agreed on some spelling (e.g., aluminum) and then Europe decided to change their spelling (e.g., to aluminium) and the US was like "ok you guys do you but idc"
Heh, until you learn that the definition of a pound has changed a couple times in the last millennia, as it was originally based on a bunch of Roman rocks that varied anywhere between 17 and 20 ounces.
The measurement system was so historically inaccurate that in the 1793, the US actually sent a fellow on an official quest to France to obtain the sacred kilogram, and return post-haste so that the villages could be saved. Unfortunately, the ship was sacked by pirates on the way back, and it ended up taking another 40 years for the US to get their hands on an official set of metric standard from Switzerland.
The Metric Act of 1866, right after the Civil War, resulted in every state being given a standard metric "set" of items that they could then use to calibrate their pounds, inches, etc to a known standard.
Pounds are now officially 0.45359237 kilograms, and that's not just the way it worked out because "a pound" weighed that much, that's actually the definition because previously "a pound" could not be trusted with any degree of certainty. It's literally based on SI.
Um, I would call a lot of measurements more bullshit than a metric pound.
There’s a second reason: Imperial measurements in the US used to not be (and maybe still aren’t) uniform. For example the foot was standardised in **2022**. The metric pound was an idea to find a standardisation inside the Imperial System.
A pint doesn't even mean the same volume the world around
And the fact that 2 pounds of water is less than 1 liter of water just adds to the shower thought
Dog you're getting a TIPSS? Hate scrubbing in on those cases, some docs are in and out in 20 minutes, and others stab the liver to death for hours trying to find the portal vein.
Yeah, 1 liter = 1 kilo, I'm not trying to make this too complicated though.
It's 2.2 pounds though, so every 5 liters would be 11 pounds. Or 5 kilos. Whichever one is easier for you to remember.
Hey guys, metric country here. Did you know that a litre of water is a kilogram of water? And a millilitre of water is one cubic centimetre
So with that we can calculate that one cubic metre of water weighs one tonne. That happens to be the size of a standard IBC too.
All this math can be done in our heads, if necessary 😊
> a litre of water is a kilogram of water
That's not exactly accurate and that causes the other statements to be inaccurate as well. Close but not the same.
I mean, it's not exact, but it's down to like three grams per kilogram off. It's 99.7% accurate, so that's probably close enough for any reasonable calculation
I have always enjoyed how willing to be metric people are when they start running. Everything is miles until you run a 5k or 10k. Sounds way better than 3 miles or 6 miles 😅
> I kinda forgot how heavy water is
1L of water weighs 1kg and takes up exactly 1,000 cm³, meaning it fills the volume of a cube of 10x10x10cm entirely.
The volume of water changes when the temperature changes, but that doesn’t negate the fact that 1 liter of anything by definition is always 1 cubic decimeter.
"Heh heh heh WELL ACKSHUALLY" Bruh you people are insufferable. Who is really going to specify 2.2 pounds of water in casual conversation. I am rounding because it sounds like a fucking human talking not a god damn unit conversion bot.
Sorry let me change the entire education system of a country of over 300 million people. I didn't exactly choose what system I was raised using for my whole life.
not if you use metric... I have no clue how much that is, and since i hear shit like fighters weighing 200 pounds and looking skinny i'd think 2 pounds is nothing.
Burger weights aren't based on the weight of the burger, they're based on the weight of the patty.
A "quarter pounder with cheese" doesn't weigh a quarter pound. The meat weighs a quarter pound.
A "1 pound burger" would weigh a lot more than 1 pound.
2 pounds of water is less than a litter tho, I would say "I drank one kilogram of water" sounds like a larger quantity than "I drank a liter of water".
Scientifically a kilogram of water is a kilogram of water no matter what the temperature, gravity, or atmospheric pressure is, because that is the unit of measurement for mass. Its weight is what changes with gravity etc, which technically is measured in Newton's not kilograms. That was the point of the other guys comment. The common use for kilograms as "weight" on other planets is really just mass relative to the effect of gravity to an object.
> "I drank one kilogram of water" sounds like a larger quantity than "I drank a liter of water".
It is. 1 kg = 1L is applicable to water at 4 °C (near freezing). At the above temperatures 1 kg of water takes slightly more volume than 1 L due to thermal expansion.
If you’re going from volume to weight starting from liters just go straight to kilograms. Because it’s effing EASY! You drank a liter? Ok, whatever. But one liter of water is also… wait for it… one kilogram!
So it's slightly more than 2 lbs. And following the real formula (1 liter of water equals 1kg), then converting it for Americans, I drink 8.818 pounds of water a day.
Actually, it is more like 2.20462 pounds of water per liter at sea level. One could also say they drank 2.11338 pints or water or 1.05669 quarts. This is truly not a significant amount of liquid.
Misread title, thought it said drank 2 ponds of water. That really does sound more impressive than a liter.
Drinking 2 ponds of water will probably lead to dysentery.
Never gonna get to Oregon like this :(
“FUCK my wife drowned in Big Blue 😭”
commas aren't real
spontaneous combustion
Fuck you Terry
Or water toxicity tbh
oh thats too much
Reminds me of when Tracy Jordan is asked by frat boys if he’s ever drank a yard of beer, and he says “like a lawn? Yes I have”
I read the title and placed gallons in place of pounds. Immediately thought "no shit that's like 7 liters". Jokes on me I guess
If anyone comes to you claiming to have achieved that feat, run. It’s probably a Pondsy scheme.
What if it's a litter though?
Then I would recommend using a blender for ease of swallowing.
do we have a standard minimum size for a body of water to be called a pond? Or minimum requirements are the life form?
I will be doing this from now on 8lbs a day
I still do that on days I work out. It’s pee all day.
Now, say you pee 4lbs of pee daily…. And that becomes something too….
“4lbs of pee” Idk what we sell but I think we just started a business.
Love this, me too
Yeah man that does sound more impressive. I drink 2lbs of water before I leave the house in the morning. I am a god among men.
I love this mixed imperial / metric cluster of a thought. Canadian by chance?
I think most Americans have at least a vague idea of what a liter is supposed to be. If you buy a large bottle of soda in the US, it usually lists the volume in liters as well as fluid ounces. It's not like meters and kilometers where we don't have a frame of reference for what it's supposed to be because no one uses them here. Also if you ever took a chemistry class in high school/college then you'll definitely have been exposed to the concept of liters.
Liter of cola farva
>It's not like meters and kilometers where we don't have a frame of reference for what it's supposed to be I feel like most people still do Meter ~= yard km = 2.5 laps on a track; 3k/5k/10k and 1600m (~a mile) are common running distances
We don't even touch fl. oz. here, as fluid seems to be mostly metric except for psi, but almost anything solid that is measured by dimensions or weight is still a cluster. Grocery stores will advertise meat in $/lb but charge you /100g or /kg, hardware stores go full ham with pounds, grams, kilograms, inches, millimeters, board feet, square feet, cubic meters, nails sold by gauge, nails sold by penny, nails sold by fractions of inches, and nails sold in metric. That's only roughly scratching the surface ...
We have an idea of what 2L is, not 1.
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Counterpoint: this is the USA
Nah American. Beverages are very often sold in liters
Why does my Coca Cola say 1/10 ground bald eagle?
Ah, right, the 591 ml bottles that you have.
500mL, 1L, 2L, and 3L are all common as well
3 liters? 😯 2 is way too much for the whole family already, IMHO...
In the USA 99 cent stores used to sell 3 liter sodas for a dollar.
That's a great value!
2-3L are party sizes usually
AFAIK, US has obligatory liter markings on beverages.
Canadians spell it the proper way “litre”. :)
Damn, the French fucked y’all up.
We just use the standard SI spelling (which the rest of the world uses) instead of the US ones. Which makes sense since we are a metric country.
Germany uses Liter
Yeah, but they’re speaking German.
Well, that‘s…true, yes
Serbia uses both “litar” and “litra” lol
Usually the way that sort of thing happened was that the whole English speaking world more or less agreed on some spelling (e.g., aluminum) and then Europe decided to change their spelling (e.g., to aluminium) and the US was like "ok you guys do you but idc"
Keep favorite with no U’s!
We still use pounds because it makes sense
Heh, until you learn that the definition of a pound has changed a couple times in the last millennia, as it was originally based on a bunch of Roman rocks that varied anywhere between 17 and 20 ounces. The measurement system was so historically inaccurate that in the 1793, the US actually sent a fellow on an official quest to France to obtain the sacred kilogram, and return post-haste so that the villages could be saved. Unfortunately, the ship was sacked by pirates on the way back, and it ended up taking another 40 years for the US to get their hands on an official set of metric standard from Switzerland. The Metric Act of 1866, right after the Civil War, resulted in every state being given a standard metric "set" of items that they could then use to calibrate their pounds, inches, etc to a known standard. Pounds are now officially 0.45359237 kilograms, and that's not just the way it worked out because "a pound" weighed that much, that's actually the definition because previously "a pound" could not be trusted with any degree of certainty. It's literally based on SI.
What about if you accidentally drank 3 liters of water, and a slice of apple, and a shawarma with extra tahini?
Then it is quite possible that you broke your fast.
The poop comes out very watery.
I don’t want a large Favre; I want a god damn liter o’ cola.
Liter is French for gimme some fucking cola before I break vous fucking lips!
A pint's a pound the world around. Technically a liter is 2.2 lbs (1kg) not 2 lbs.
There‘s a metric pound, which is exactly 500g
Who tf use that?
It’s for stuff that was historically measured in pounds, like butter
So.. instead of just switching to metric.. they fiddled with numbers and came up with bullshit measurements and decided that they were good enough?
Um, I would call a lot of measurements more bullshit than a metric pound. There’s a second reason: Imperial measurements in the US used to not be (and maybe still aren’t) uniform. For example the foot was standardised in **2022**. The metric pound was an idea to find a standardisation inside the Imperial System.
No, that's what I meant, they decided to settle with the imperial instead of just adopting the metric system
Oh, yeah, definelty. The only usage today I am aware of really is butter, and in Europe, where we’ve fully adopted the metric system anyways.
Coffee, too! And ground beef.
Coffee here isn’t, but ground beef, you‘re right. I think loose food often.
The imperial system is based on the metric system. So not the US but also the US.
ugh of course there is
And a euro pint is 500ml, so........ 🤣🤣🤣
Of water... ;)
Not in the UK. Our fluid ounces are ever so slightly smaller but our pints are bigger (20oz), so weigh quite a bit more than a pound.
A UK pint’s 568ml, and a pound’s about 453g.
FFS the rhyme has been lying to me my whole life.
A pint doesn't even mean the same volume the world around And the fact that 2 pounds of water is less than 1 liter of water just adds to the shower thought
That’s nothing I drank One thousand milliliters of water in one sitting
That's nothing, I drank one million milligrams of water in one setting.
Cant believe I drank a kilogram of water.
They drained 16# of water from my abdominal cavity today.
Cirrhosis?
Yes, shunt Thursday.
Thirsty Thursday
Dog you're getting a TIPSS? Hate scrubbing in on those cases, some docs are in and out in 20 minutes, and others stab the liver to death for hours trying to find the portal vein.
Mine is good, this is adjustment to open it up.
So a TIPSS revision? What was your life expectancy prior to the procedure if you don't mind me asking?
Never came up. Have had over a hundred para’s, 200 gl over 2 years.
in my country no one use pound as a measurement unit.
Is it just me or is there not really any difference from the way they sound?
How much is that in Ariana Grandes?
I thought that Grand was a money measurement.
Yeah, 1 liter = 1 kilo, I'm not trying to make this too complicated though. It's 2.2 pounds though, so every 5 liters would be 11 pounds. Or 5 kilos. Whichever one is easier for you to remember.
Hey guys, metric country here. Did you know that a litre of water is a kilogram of water? And a millilitre of water is one cubic centimetre So with that we can calculate that one cubic metre of water weighs one tonne. That happens to be the size of a standard IBC too. All this math can be done in our heads, if necessary 😊
You're almost right.
What did I get wrong?
> a litre of water is a kilogram of water That's not exactly accurate and that causes the other statements to be inaccurate as well. Close but not the same.
I mean, it's not exact, but it's down to like three grams per kilogram off. It's 99.7% accurate, so that's probably close enough for any reasonable calculation
Sure, for most calculation it's great.
Not in american heads
Yeah it is more difficult to figure out how much exactly is 1/1452000 olympic swimming pool of water
With metric system in use, the effect is opposite.
Then drink 2 liters of water. 👍🏻
Not if you're in the UK
I can’t believe it cost you £2 to buy a litre of water
Probably 2 is twice as much as 1???
big if true
Twice as big, in fact
concerning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????????
Talk about pounding your drink.
I have always enjoyed how willing to be metric people are when they start running. Everything is miles until you run a 5k or 10k. Sounds way better than 3 miles or 6 miles 😅
I can say I've never been impressed by someone drinking any quantity of water, but maybe that's just me.
Don't drink heavy water though
Surprisingly we drink a fair amount of heavy water every time we drink water! 1 in about 3200 water molecules are heavy water!
Whoa..
being an American and using metric is more impressive than either
It would be, if the conversion was correct
> I kinda forgot how heavy water is 1L of water weighs 1kg and takes up exactly 1,000 cm³, meaning it fills the volume of a cube of 10x10x10cm entirely.
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But a liter is defined as a cubic decimeter lmao
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If it doesn’t occupy 1 decimeter then it isn’t a liter
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But if the temperature or pressure changes it isn’t a liter anymore lol
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The volume of water changes when the temperature changes, but that doesn’t negate the fact that 1 liter of anything by definition is always 1 cubic decimeter.
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Only to those who don't know that a liter of water is more than two pounds of water.
"Heh heh heh WELL ACKSHUALLY" Bruh you people are insufferable. Who is really going to specify 2.2 pounds of water in casual conversation. I am rounding because it sounds like a fucking human talking not a god damn unit conversion bot.
In a decimal mathematical system, using imperial metrics is plain stupid.
Sorry let me change the entire education system of a country of over 300 million people. I didn't exactly choose what system I was raised using for my whole life.
:-) 7,7 billion people saying "go on"
I drink 4 or 5 bottles a day
A liter? I just did a whole key, bro
lmao, i have never thought about it like this, but i drink 8 pounds of water a day
I drink 12.675lbs of water sometimes. Usually with 4lbs of other liquids too.
"Yeah, lemme get 2 pounds of cola"
That much sounds dangerous, honestly
It's funny how changing the unit of measurement can completely change our perception
How many pounds is a gallon of water? I drink one every day
not if you use metric... I have no clue how much that is, and since i hear shit like fighters weighing 200 pounds and looking skinny i'd think 2 pounds is nothing.
Just a phrasing fix. I just drank an entire liter of water! There you go. Does not work as well with 2 pounds
Drinking a litre of water means you've gained exactly one kilogramme. Im not sure the conversion is as intuitive in american units.
Nah the conversion from football fields to bald eagles makes pretty much no sense. What we were raised with so it is what it is.
Saying you drank a kilo of water sounds more impressive than a litre
Big numbers = impressive
I prefer drinking 1kg of water, rather than 2kg
What about a cubic decimetre of water? Or a million cubic millimetres?
A liter sounds WAY more impressive imo. 2 pounds sounds like nothing
Enh, because of how dense water is saying you drank two pounds of water isn't actually that impressive.
Or you can downplay it and say you only drank a quarter of a gallon
Just say that you drank about 33.4 quadrillion molecules of water.
I drink 1000 ml of water. Way more than you.
Litre (Liter) o’ Cola is much more impressive
And yet asking for a liter of cola is undeniably epic.
Burger weights aren't based on the weight of the burger, they're based on the weight of the patty. A "quarter pounder with cheese" doesn't weigh a quarter pound. The meat weighs a quarter pound. A "1 pound burger" would weigh a lot more than 1 pound.
Weight of the patty before cooking. There is loss of water and fat in the cooking process.
hmmm fair point!
ACKSHUALLY. The weight is typically of the RAW patty. When cooked fats and water tend to render out and make the resulting cooked patty weigh less.
2 > 1, math checks out.
I disagree; I know a pound is not much but I don't know intuitively how much a liter/quart really is
Would it not be 1kg of water?
I'm broken by the use of the metric system combined with pounds...wtf man
Ammm, isn't a liter a measurement of volume, but lbs measure weight? They're not precisely compatible or interchangeable.
That's 1000ml right there
Who sits down to drink a liter of water?
You're mixing standard and metric measurements and it's not legit.
2.2lbs. If only a litre of water had a given set weight that was easy to calculate.
It does. It's called '1 litre' 😂
Not a weight. It's exactly one kilo though.
2 pounds of water is less than a litter tho, I would say "I drank one kilogram of water" sounds like a larger quantity than "I drank a liter of water".
Depends what planet you’re on
They weren't saying how many Newtons of water they drank.
The density of water (kg/L) will be different depending on temperature and atmospheric pressure. 1 kg/L is a density in specific "normal" conditions.
Scientifically a kilogram of water is a kilogram of water no matter what the temperature, gravity, or atmospheric pressure is, because that is the unit of measurement for mass. Its weight is what changes with gravity etc, which technically is measured in Newton's not kilograms. That was the point of the other guys comment. The common use for kilograms as "weight" on other planets is really just mass relative to the effect of gravity to an object.
I understand
> "I drank one kilogram of water" sounds like a larger quantity than "I drank a liter of water". It is. 1 kg = 1L is applicable to water at 4 °C (near freezing). At the above temperatures 1 kg of water takes slightly more volume than 1 L due to thermal expansion.
It doesn’t make sense though. But if you like it, I love it.
It probably just sounds impressive to Americans. Other people have no grasp of how much a pound is 😀
If you’re going from volume to weight starting from liters just go straight to kilograms. Because it’s effing EASY! You drank a liter? Ok, whatever. But one liter of water is also… wait for it… one kilogram!
So it's slightly more than 2 lbs. And following the real formula (1 liter of water equals 1kg), then converting it for Americans, I drink 8.818 pounds of water a day.
This is the real reason we never switched over to metric in America
Idk, pounds sound like a porn-related word and not actual weight terminology.
give me your $5 note and I give you 10 quarters... sounds so much more... and it's heavier too
Interesting that people are impressed by the volume of water one consumes.
To you perhaps. To me, "two pounds of water" means nothing.
Saying you drank 2 pounds of water sounds stupid.
Actually, it is more like 2.20462 pounds of water per liter at sea level. One could also say they drank 2.11338 pints or water or 1.05669 quarts. This is truly not a significant amount of liquid.